Station Wagon trim query

[GHOBHW]

so thats why they had so many station wagons....

[Birdsnest55]

A little OT but just seen this on S1 club. The forerunner.

Paul

[GHOBHW]

I have a few image collections of series 1 GPO land rovers too...

the rest of the set from the image above

[GHOBHW]

and for the SWB fans....

nothing beats a station wagon, of any kind

1956 year

[Birdsnest55]

I worked at BT for 19 years, I was towed by an 88" Station Wagon on many occasions as I broke my HA, Commer, Escort and Maestro vans quite regulary.
The Escort Van was the best failure, that lasted less than 5000 miles. I was racing my mate off the line on the A5 and I gave it so much Welly the Cam Belt slipped.
I did not wreck the 2B forward control, this I drive off road when I was 16 down some very steep terrain as the guys I was working with took bets on me rolling it. I would have taken over an hour to drive round, so it was win win.

Paul

[GHOBHW]

I worked at BT for 19 years, I was towed by an 88" Station Wagon on many occasions as I broke my HA, Commer, Escort and Maestro vans quite regulary.
The Escort Van was the best failure, that lasted less than 5000 miles. I was racing my mate off the line on the A5 and I gave it so much Welly the Cam Belt slipped.
I did not wreck the 2B forward control, this I drive off road when I was 16 down some very steep terrain as the guys I was working with took bets on me rolling it. I would have taken over an hour to drive round, so it was win win.

Paul

I once got a winch off a guy who had an ex BT 2B, the chassis went bent about a few mm in the middle, as they drove under a bridge with the bucket up still.
you couldn't tell until you looked at the cab and the rear tub area, then it was very obvious

my ex GPO station wagon had a pretty rough life in service too, then served as a rally recovery land rover for the RAF rally team in the 70s and early 80s. so it was pretty well used...

what they were made for though

[Craig T]

Many thanks for the pictures of the 86" station wagon. I have saved those to my reference file for the rebuild of the one below. Mine is a 1955 version with a 1954 roof and rear door on it. I'm pretty sure mine didn't start as a station wagon and got the earlier roof later on in life but I will restore it to resemble a 1654 vehicle even if the chassis number is a 5710 number meaning 1955 model year.

Wonder why they went to the hassle of moving the rear step below the tow hitch rather than simply removing it. Looks somewhat venerable down there!

Craig.

[GHOBHW]

Many thanks for the pictures of the 86" station wagon. I have saved those to my reference file for the rebuild of the one below. Mine is a 1955 version with a 1954 roof and rear door on it. I'm pretty sure mine didn't start as a station wagon and got the earlier roof later on in life but I will restore it to resemble a 1654 vehicle even if the chassis number is a 5710 number meaning 1955 model year.

Wonder why they went to the hassle of moving the rear step below the tow hitch rather than simply removing it. Looks somewhat venerable down there!

Craig.

if you look closely in the back, there is a drop down table, so I guess they wanted to keep easy access. the drop down tables were usually for planning/mapping while at work, so I'd expect you'd be in and out of the back 100 times a day

my GPO 2a had the drop down table inside, though nothing remains of it other than a cleaner spot on the roofing felt where it once lived...

[GHOBHW]

here is what they were like on a 2A.

sadly I cannot find any plans to even try recreate this, as I don't know how it worked. plus the Post Office Vehicle Club hold nothing either

[Craig T]

Interesting table that.
Looks like the two rails were fixed in place from the bulkhead behind the seats into the roof and the table slid up and down it somehow with a fold out leg to support the back when down.

Difficult to replicate from just photos. Hard to see what held it up into the roof.

Craig.

[GHOBHW]

Interesting table that.
Looks like the two rails were fixed in place from the bulkhead behind the seats into the roof and the table slid up and down it somehow with a fold out leg to support the back when down.

Difficult to replicate from just photos. Hard to see hat held it up into the roof.

Craig.

yeah its a real oddity, in mine I obviously have all the holes etc in place, the ones in the roof were just drilled through the liner, into the middle section, then plugged with 2 rubber bungs which the bolts went into, not even rivnuts or anything...guess they expected the bottom ones to do all the work.

at the back of my roof it still has a block of wood painted white with a little toggle thing on it, which I expect held the table in place once it was up, but I'm not sure.

maybe someone out there will see this and have all the info

[2286]

I have a few image collections of series 1 GPO land rovers too...

the rest of the set from the image above

Any idea who the coachbuilder was on the lwb  s1?

Re s1 swb, is that thing above the winch bollard an emergency stop button for the engine?

[GHOBHW]

I have a few image collections of series 1 GPO land rovers too...

the rest of the set from the image above

Any idea who the coachbuilder was on the lwb  s1?

Re s1 swb, is that thing above the winch bollard an emergency stop button for the engine?

yes its an emergency engine stop. all GPO land rovers with a winch had one, either on the wings or on the front grille area